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Japan PM to outline nuclear phase-down planTokyo (AFP) July 13, 2011 Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan was on Wednesday due to outline his plan to reduce the country's reliance on nuclear power and promote renewables in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. The embattled centre-left leader has announced a full review of Japan's energy plan, under which atomic power had been set to meet over half of demand by 2030, up from about one third before the March 11 quake-tsunami disaster. Kan, who started his political life as an environmental activist, has said he wants to ... read more |
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  Philippines says China sea claim shaky China's refusal to allow a UN-backed tribunal to rule on a South China Sea territorial dispute indicates Beijing's claim stands on shaky legal ground, the Philippines said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  N.Z. questions China's Pacific aid strategy New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully raised concerns Wednesday about China's aid strategy in the Pacific, urging Beijing to stop giving so-called "soft loans" to nations such as Tonga. ... more | .. |
  Grasses eyed as ethanol source Researchers say growing grasses on some U.S. farmland used for corn ethanol production would mean higher corn yields and more ethanol output per acre. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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  Argentina blocks Paraguay power sales Argentine demands for more lucrative terms are threatening to scuttle landlocked Paraguay's power sales to Uruguay, a significant source of revenue for the impoverished government in Asuncion. ... more | .. |
  China economic growth slows to 9.5% in Q2 China said Wednesday its economy grew at a slower pace in the second quarter, highlighting the difficult task for Beijing as it battles to bring politically sensitive inflation under control. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: Republicans need new taxes U.S. President Barack Obama hardly needs more taxes to slash the federal deficit but congressional Republicans do need new taxes to survive politically. ... more | .. |
 China considers shale gas production The Chinese government is considering more unconventional methods to tap into the country's vast shale natural gas deposits. ... more |
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A weakening forest buffer challenges EU climate goals
DefendEye adds Starlink Mini to tube drone system for real time global search ops
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 China's CNOOC cleaning up second oil spill China National Offshore Oil Corporation, which was recently accused of covering up a huge spill, is cleaning up another slick after a breakdown at a rig off the northeast coast, officials said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Oil, Chinese imports swell US trade gap The US trade deficit ballooned in May to the widest level in more than two and a half years as the world's largest economy sucked in foreign oil and Chinese imports while exports fell. ... more | .. |
 Filters seen as greenhouse gas weapon U.S. researchers say biofilters could treat methane venting into the atmosphere from passive landfill vents and reduce its impact on global warming. ... more | .. |
 China says local government debt 'controllable' China's central bank said the risks from local government borrowing were "controllable", despite growing concerns over the potential for an explosion in bad loans. ... more |
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 Norway's DNO doubles oil reserves estimate in Kurdish field Norwegian oil firm DNO said on Tuesday it had more than doubled its oil reserve estimate for its licensed Tawke oil field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, sending its share price up nearly four percent. ... more | .. |
  Australia PM hails coal deal amid poll slump Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday hailed a record coal mining bid as proof the key resources sector would thrive, shrugging off a slump in the polls over her plans for a pollution tax. ... more | .. |
 Australia's Fortescue hints at HK, Shanghai listing Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals is considering a listing in Hong Kong or Shanghai in a bid to get closer to its Chinese clients, the company's founder Andrew Forrest said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 China rejects Philippine proposal on disputed sea China on Tuesday rejected calls by the Philippines for the two nations to bring their conflicting claims in the South China Sea before a United Nations-backed tribunal. ... more |
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Russian space chief says agreed with NASA on ISS cooperation until 2028
SpaceX Dragon delivers Crew-11 to International Space Station
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 BoJ lowers Japan growth forecast The Bank of Japan on Tuesday lowered its real GDP growth forecast for this fiscal year, citing a sharp contraction in production in the immediate aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. ... more | .. |
  NIST prototype optics table on a chip places microwave photon in 2 colors at once Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a tunable superconducting circuit on a chip that can place a single microwave photon (particle of light) in two ... more | .. |
 Device captures ambient electromagnetic energy to drive small electronic devices Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems. By scaveng ... more | .. |
 Geothermal industry to get boost from Reno research An ambitious University of Nevada, Reno project to understand and characterize geothermal potential at nearly 500 sites throughout the Great Basin is yielding a bounty of information for the geother ... more |
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 Light propagation controlled in photonic chips marks major breakthrough in telecommunications field Researchers at Columbia Engineering School have built optical nanostructures that enable them to engineer the index of refraction and fully control light dispersion. They have shown that it is possi ... more | .. |
 Serbia wants U.N. to honor Tesla birthday Serbia says it will ask the United Nations to declare the birth date of scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla International Science Day. ... more | .. |
 Walker's World: Double dips and worse China, the locomotive that has been driving the world economy, is slowing. And since the rest of the world is in no shape to compensate, a second recession or a very prolonged slowdown is starting to look inevitable. ... more | .. |
Timing of US military exercises 'inappropriate': China China's top military officer on Monday called the timing of American naval exercises in the sensitive South China Sea "inappropriate", after holding talks with his US counterpart in Beijing. ... more |
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Deloitte launches Silent Shield system to monitor satellite cyber threats
Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
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China's top general criticises US exercises China's top military officer said Monday the timing of US naval exercises in the South China Sea was "inappropriate," after talks with his American counterpart aimed at cooling the territorial dispute. ... more | .. |
  Big solar panel factory launched in Italy One of the biggest solar panel factories in Europe has been launched in Italy as a U.N. report says photovoltaic modules have become more price-competitive. ... more | .. |
 Japan still needs nuclear power: Tokyo governor Tokyo's outspoken Governor Shintaro Ishihara says Japan still needs atomic power, despite what he expects will be "some hysterical reaction" to the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis. ... more | .. |
 BRICS vow to improve access to low-cost medicine The BRICS group of emerging countries on Monday vowed to improve access to low-cost and high-quality medicine - and called on developed nations to shoulder responsibility in helping the poor. ... more |
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 Industry unhappy with Australia's pollution tax Airlines, miners and industry launched a furious attack on Australia's bold new tax on carbon emissions Monday, as Prime Minister Julia Gillard began selling the levy to sceptical voters. ... more | .. |
Three die in China coal mine rescue Three rescuers died as they tried to help workers trapped in a colliery in eastern China, local authorities said Monday, as 21 people remained stuck in another mine in the same region. ... more | .. |
21 trapped in China iron ore mine: report Twenty-one workers are trapped underground after a flood in an iron ore mine in eastern China, state media said Monday, in the latest accident to hit the notoriously dangerous industry. ... more | .. |
Japan says reactor 'stress tests' in two phases Japan said on Monday that its nuclear reactor "stress tests" will be carried out in two stages, prioritising dozens that are now idled, but gave no timeline for when the assessments will start. ... more |
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